links for 2008-05-15
Posted on 15 May, 2008 by Andrew Brown
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three dates in May
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there’s going to be some scrutiny into what’s going on
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In the end what they spend
is no reflection
on the wholesome two point twosome who fill their
trolleys across Lewisham. -
what it did, what it’s about, and what it will do
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The Mayor battles on, Caford girl with good hair and guerrilla gardening, Henry packs it all in in his usual economical way
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the opening of the St Matthew Academy’s new library
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A Green’s perspective of their vote in Lewisham
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Martin can’t hide his happiness
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24Gold Radio have a podcast, including an interview with Sue who manages to use the word “modal”
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Socialist Unity gives a Respect view saying that Chris Flood’s vote (in Telegraph Hill) was “creditable, but hardly a good indicator that the advantage of incumbency as a councillor on its own helped left candidates”
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seems he (Dr Chilton) used to be a planner in our fair borough
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The Bugle is understandably impressed
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Kate is being bounced between categories
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The Geezer is sceptical about Boris’s plans for trees, although he notes that we’ve got a lovely Dutch Elm
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Inveresk Street Ingrate has fun at Chris Flood’s expense
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prettying up the “bin farm”
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Max wonders if they’re holding Council meetings anymore
Filed under: Lewisham
“modal’, yes, what a jolly word that is, and although a dictionary may not agree with my definition of the word, in the context of traffic it means ‘we don’t know what to do with it and we don’t know how to reduce it but if we ignore it for long enough we hope it’ll go away and if I’m still a councillor I’ll try and take the praise for it”
The ‘modal shift’ has been mentioned a lot in relation to the ‘regeneration’ of Lewisham, and is always a good measure of the vacuity of the speaker. (I suppose a vacuum can be measured)
but you knew that anyway Andrew . . .
all the best